Leaning on data from the government study Future workforce trends, the research found that regional Australia was likely to be hit hardest as robotic machines replaced jobs that relied on manual labour performed by humans.

White collar jobs, like podiatrists, occupational therapists and pharmacists were deemed to be least at risk of automation.

Adzuna's CEO Raife Watson said the rise of a machine workforce will funnel more people into Australia's major cities.

"We run the real risk of mass unemployment in our regions and over-population of our major cities," said Watson.

"As it stands, Australians who work in manual jobs in regional Australia will face high levels of unemployment over the next decade and will have little choice but to up-skill and move to cities like Sydney and Melbourne."

Watson said that given the exponential rise of technology, future jobseekers would best be advised to gain skills in areas robots cannot compete: emotions.

"New technology is introduced almost every day. Specific types of programmers that were in high demand five years ago now have skills that are obsolete," said Watson.

"Australians must be vigilant and continue to think about jobs that will be difficult to replace in the future.

"Build a career in a job that requires emotional intelligence and tasks that cannot be replicated by a machine."